European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse . Couple s afghans won t wow us dog owners � Bletchingley ragman of scheherazade for instance has Many British bred hounds Barking up the wrong tree Bow by Paul Spiers staff writers a photos by red Grandy fallow the Pete s Chat with 1st it Richard Blondis another afghan owner. Sunday August 9, 1959 four week old afghans. At has age they Bear Small resemblance to the full grown dog. Mrs. Pede takes dogs for a walk. The prize winning hounds Are Cleopatra left Shah and Sheba. To Tel stars and a couple of american blog owner living in Braintree England hav received a Good natured invitation to 9 Homo. After one of i heir dogs won another championship which is getting to be a habit a sign created As a joke by British friends who also own show dogs Reali Yankee go Home you re winning too Many prizes. We want some maj and mrs. Wallace Pede believe they Are the first americans to own a Junior Champion dog in the us. Their top afghan hound Bletchingley ragman of Scheher zade Shah is a Junior Champion of the Breed. To gain this Honor a dog must earn 25 Points the equivalent of 25 wins at Ropeik shows or nine wins at championship shows is 18 months. Shah did it Between his ninth and seventeenth month. Pede understands that Only two other afghans in the us have earned these Many Points during the first four years. Another first for the Pedes was his being the first american elected to the British National afghan hound association committee. The 36-year-old major a native of Phila Delphta is executive officer of the 2qtii tactical fighter Wing. Wethersfield air base. He and his wife Kay a native of Detroit have owned afghans since March 1957, and the slogan of their Kennel is the hounds with a at the present time their other prize winning dogs Are Sheba of scheherazade Sheba and Mazuri Shems Baccante Cleopatra the Money you win at a dog show is just a Token Pede says. What counts is that the prestige of dog and Kennel Means their value goes up immensely. One of England s biggest breeders recently re Quested Shah for stud. We have decided to take four or five hounds Back with us to the states and seriously go into business. We want to take the Best we can get in Britain. There s not much difference Between american and British afghans although in. Britain they re More heavily coated. An eight week old afghan Puppy with show potential costs about $600 in the states. It s a Good bit less in England. We paid roughly $300 for according to the Pedes the afghan May be the oldest Breed of dog in the world. The Story goes that afghans were the dogs Noah took with him Ark. But there Are two schools of thought. Some claim the Saluki is the oldest. They re in the same family of dogs. Carvings in the caves of ancient Egypt depict a ring tailed Baboon faced hound and that sure fits the afghans. In the old Days afghans were used to Hunt leopards. They be been known to kill a Leopard sin Gle hand edly. The sixth Grandfather of our dog Cleo Patra is known to have killed two leopards single hand edly before he was brought to Britain. Afghans were first brought to Britain from India by British officers about the beginning of the Century. Not until the late 1920s were they brought from Britain to the the Way the afghan is in a Speed class with a greyhound and an afghan can t be fooled As the Pedes who own their Home in Braintree have converted the backyard into a Kennel and the hounds have ample room to cavort. The three dogs average weight about 60 pounds Are surprisingly adaptable to confined areas. The Pedes travel to shows in a Small european car with the three shaggy ones on the bail re Good As Gold oven during 11 hours driving in one Day says Kay. Tap to
